i think no doubt the obama administration has done good work on counter terrorism. as soon as i left government, one of the things i argued you're going do to see fundamental continuity. in the counter terrorism policy. over 0 time had had evolved. it was because you had same kinds of threats that new president was going have to face the last president was going have to safe. it you had a lot of the same individuals running it as you did under the bush administration. there has been fundamental continue knewty. and for the obama administration they have been aggressive in going after al-qaeda. not just in pakistan and afghanistan but also in yemen and somali. you can have seen it globally. one thing, the bush administration did enormous things both institutionally and disrupting plots and making it safer. you can go back and look at the plots disrupted. the august 2006 arm plot which would have been disastrous al-qaeda plotting to bring down sten flights over the atlantic. it was brought down because the cooperation of the british service and the u.s. service. and t